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Welcome to WACS, Web-based Adult Content Server, a free software package for the management of material of an "Adult Nature" (or basically whatever euphermism for porn you prefer). It is web-based and can be used for the management of an existing collection, as a download manager, or as a back-end system for running a commercial adult web site. In addition to being a powerful collection management tool, the underlying software infra-structure (the API or Application Programming Interface) is available for web designers and programmers to use from a range of programming languages to develop their own adult web sites (a simple example site is also provided - this is discussed in Chapter 14, Wacs-PHP: The Simple Skin).
WACS is dramatically different from most other image gallery systems in that it understands photo sets and video clips as basic concepts, instead of single photographs. It also includes far more specialised tagging, source, relationship and attribute marking concepts than other more generalised systems. WACS' abilities in the areas of searching and dynamic filtering are really industry-leading in their power and flexibility.
This book, the WACS User Guide, is designed to show you around the key parts of the WACS system and teach you how to use the many features and advanced search mechanisms to navigate a collection with ease and accuracy. While it is extensively illustrated and should provide a good foundation by itself, you will benefit from having an account on or other access to an already operational WACS server, whether it is our demonstration site (coming soon) or a WACS server someone else has already configured. If you don't have either of these, you may wish to read the companion "Installation Guide" either in parallel or first.
WACS is designed to use very clean, standards conformant HTML (Web Documents) and so should work on just about every full featured web browser. It does use JavaScript fairly heavily but has been designed to fall back as gracefully as possible; navigation and some functionality will be impared but not severely. Primary development is done with Firefox 2, but those Web browsers tested and known to work are listed below [1].
Table 1.1. Compatible Web Browsers
| Logo | Browser | Platform | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Firefox | Linux, Windows | |
| Google Chrome | Windows | Also CxChromium on Linux |
| Internet Explorer | Windows | |
| Opera | Linux, Windows | |
| Konqueror | Linux | |
| Lynx | Lynx | Linux | useful for downloading |
For copyright/licensing reasons, the example images feature sets from photoshoots by the main developer of WACS (Beaky) and a friend of his. These sets will be available on our demonstration site when that goes live. Please understand that due to the bandwidth and storage costs in running such a server on the internet, and the need to verify (as best we can) that the applicant is an adult, there is a small charge for access to the site.
[1] Trademarks, logos and product names are acknowledged as being the property of their respective owners